Help! iTunes won't work at all!!

We recently upgraded to a High Speed USB port, which didn't work. We then changed our Windows Xp form Professional to Home Edition. Since then iTuns will not work.
All of the files are still here with all my songs, videos and other data.
I can install eveything fine, but when I click on iTunes to open, I get a window that says "iTunes has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
There is a data report which I can send to Microsoft, and have done so. If you need to ee the report (which is hugge) I can post it on here!!
Please help! Dunno what I'm gonna do without iTunes!?!

Danielkg
Try uninstalling ONLY Quicktime from the control panel "Add remove programs"
Then download the stand alone Quicktime installer and install it.
Post back if it works.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone.html

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